2nd Room of Private Apartment (27)
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Publication Date
10-8-2025
Abstract
Surrounded by a double black border, this polychrome mosaic has numerous gaps unfolding irregularly across the floor. The scene depicted is almost theatrical, and takes place on two registers with 3 couples of dancers. In the upper band, the couple on the left depicts a female figure fleeing from a young man, who was in the large gap to her left. The central couple, is followed by a young man in the act of grabbing a girl by the waist. The last couple has a part of the head of the male figure and the joined legs of the young woman who is presumed to be dragged. The last iconography is incomplete forestry. This mosaic is believed to represent a dance enacting a kidnapping and perhaps, or the rape of the Sabine women, or a pyrrhic dance that evoked mythological subjects.
Model Creation Date
02/01/2022
Alt Text
A three-dimensional model of a rectangular room made of stacked stonework with a color tile mosaic on its floor. The bulk of the mosaic has broken or eroded away, leaving only a few humanoid figures visible, though what can be seen uses several bright and varied colors. The walls of the room also still have visible remnants of the frescos that once adorned them. A small opening at the right side of the room's southern wall serves as its sole entrance and exit. The 3D model can be freely moved, rotated, and zoomed in and out, allowing the viewer to inspect the object with greater detail and from multiple different angles.
Extent
1 3D Model
Media Type
Models (Representations); Renderings (Drawings)
Digitization Specifications
Method: Agisoft Metashape
Processing Software
Agisoft Metashape
Download Size
52MB
Geometry
202.7k Triangles
Format
Digital Only
Materials
1
Rigged Geometries
No
Scale Transformations
No
Textures
1
UV Layers
Yes
Vertex Colors
No
Vertices
101.9k
Recommended Citation
USF Institute for Digital Exploration, "2nd Room of Private Apartment (27)" (2025). Villa del Casale Mosaics. 13.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/idex_casale/13
